What does BFT stand for?

With this early set-up, one anticipates a widening critical lens to reframe black feminist thought in global perspective, not necessarily to analyze the social landscape of black women in other nations but at least to rethink the effects of transnational migration on urban environments in the US where working poor and middle-class African Americans commingle and conflict with recent black immigrants.

In Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere, Women's Studies professor Gwendolyn Pough makes significant contributions to both black feminist thought and hip-hop scholarship.

Black feminist thought views Black women's struggles as part of a wider struggle for human dignity and social justice" (Black Feminist Thought, 276).

Patricia Hill Collins, "Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought," in (En)gendering Knowledge: Feminists in Academe (Nashville: University of Tennessee Press, 1991), 44.

For classic examples, see Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought (1990); Angela Y.

The book's centerpiece is its chapters examining principal themes in black feminist thought.

In addition to examining their experiences and the meaning they have constructed from them, she uses Black feminist thought, Africana feminism, and critical race theory in her analysis.

Over the next 30 years, we remained long-distance friends; colleagues by virtue of our associations with English Departments, Africana American Studies, and Women's Studies; and bonded because of our mutual interests in Black women writers and Black Women's Studies, and our contributions to Black feminist thought.